Music and Vinyl: Mark Knopfler - from "Privateering"

Mark Knopfler's seventh solo album was released in 2012. Privateering was named after an analogy of a rock band touring the country in a van, making their own way in the world in much the same way as privately owned ships scouring the seas for enemy vessels.

The album received good reviews, such as this from The Telegraph:

"Relieved to shrug off the Dire Straits brand in 1995, Knopfler has relaxed into an admirable solo career of low-key country blues. His seventh solo outing is a backwoods ramble through two discs of the rootsy Anglo-American sounds in which Knopfler is now (mostly) so comfortable. There’s old-timers’ country, roadhouse blues, a Tom Waitsian piano ballad and yearning Celtic pipe.

"One of Knopfler’s skills is to write melodramatic folk lyrics then deliver them like he’s leaning against a petrol pump. Yon Two Crows is a grim shepherd’s tale, while Redbud Tree finds him “pledged” to a tree “as to my only one”. Some of the noisier blues are cheesy, but, in the main, this is a warm, authentic and durable record: the musical equivalent of a well-worn plaid shirt."

Here are three tracks from side B - Corned Beef City, Go Love, and Hot Or What.